30 Years Ago, Two Young Strategists Cracked How to Beat a Guy Like Trump. Are Democrats Ready to Listen?

The New York Times ^ | Aug. 16, 2024 | Timothy Shenk

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Something in the Democratic Party’s subconscious knows that in times of change it should go to Chicago.

It’s the city where, in 1896, a 36-year-old William Jennings Bryan sent convention delegates into raptures by railing against Gilded Age plutocrats and urging Democrats to reconnect with their populist roots. It’s where Franklin Roosevelt announced the coming of a New Deal in 1932, starting a political revolution that pushed the Republican Party to the verge of extinction. It’s where the Roosevelt coalition ripped itself apart in 1968, with protesters and students brawling in the streets and delegates at one another’s throats. It’s where Bill Clinton went in 1996 to put the ghost of the ’60s to rest and build a bridge to the 21st century. And it’s where, next week, the party of Bryan, Roosevelt and Clinton will become the party of Kamala Harris.

But what is she going to do with it? Although Ms. Harris isn’t the kind of politician who dreams about sweeping transformations — “fancy speeches,” she says, aren’t her thing — she has a unique opportunity to set the course for Democrats as they stumble out of the Biden years, to outline the steps for beating Donald Trump this fall and renew the party over the next generation.

The easiest option will be to keep heading down the road Democrats have followed since Mr. Trump’s takeover of the G.O.P. eight years ago. This means piecing together an anti-MAGA coalition in a campaign defined by opposition to Mr. Trump while tacitly giving up on blue-collar voters who have moved toward the Republican Party...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

THE BURIED LEDE: "There’s another choice, a campaign dedicated to restoring the party’s frayed connection with the working class."

Good luck with that.

[packagingguy]

The NYT about ten years ago was trumpeting (pardon the pun) the Democrat’s new coalition of urban hipsters, minorities and the ultra-wealthy, turning away from the blue collar, flyover country types.

Now they want the little people of flyover country back?

The NYT is schizophrenic.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Just more of the New Yawk Slimes Far-Left, BS BIAS. Trump/Jew Haters.

[Billthedrill]

Nobody at the NYT even knows who empties their trash cans for them.

[TigersEye]

There is quite a stenk around Timothy Shenk.

Just skimming through the excerpt I saw more used sheep dip
than you could find in Australia and New Zealand combined.

[ifinnegan]

These articles are tacit admissions that Biden “won” by election fraud.

[adorno]

The ‘tried and true’ method that democrats used in the past to win, is by cheating and stealing elections. It’s the only way they beat Trump. Democrats know that it’s the only way that Kamala can win the presidency. No need for a convention in Chicago or any other place; just recharge the cheating machines, and VOILA!, another ‘win’.

[mbrfl]

Beat Trump by pretending to be just like Trump? No Democrat is that good of an actor. And besides, why vote for a pretender instead of the real thing?

[Steely Tom]

I thought Kamala was kicking Trump’s butt in the polls. There was one last week that had her up by ten points. What is the Times worried about?

[Ge0ffrey]

Is the NY Times advising the DNC?

[subterfuge]

Couldn’t make it through that drivel.

[SaxxonWoods]

Where were they in 2015?

[henbane]

[Kamala] has a unique opportunity to set the course for Democrats as they stumble out of the Biden years--NYTimes

Like Biden, Kamala herself is stumbling ahead into Dem campaign with her lame dodging of pressers and her mouthing of absurd streams of empty non-commentary.

Until she and her puppet-masters can create a poster like the one here posted, the Dems don't have a ghost of a chance to win the White House this time around.

The NYTimes gets more and more desperate as these national elections roll on.

[jmaroneps37]

Sure thing because nothing has changed in 30 years right? Go away

[Does so]

Next week, I’d love to be the technician in charge of Kamala’s Teleprompter...!

:)

[Kathy in OC]

How on earth does a poster like that get someone elected to anything?

[dforest]

What is does is trigger trolls like you. It shines a light on the TDS infected.

[Joe 6-pack]

A little editorial discretion is in order:

"It’s the city where...where Franklin Roosevelt announced the coming of a New Deal in 1932 began the unnecessary prolongation of the great depression...It’s where Bill Clinton went in 1996 to put the ghost of the ’60s to rest behind a thin veneer of respectability and build a bridge to the 21st century 9-11.

[StAnDeliver]

"It’s the city where, in 1896, a 36-year-old William Jennings Bryan sent convention delegates into raptures by railing against Gilded Age plutocrats and urging Democrats to reconnect with their populist roots. It’s where Franklin Roosevelt announced the coming of a New Deal in 1932, starting a political revolution that pushed the Republican Party to the verge of extinction. It’s where the Roosevelt coalition ripped itself apart in 1968, with protesters and students brawling in the streets and delegates at one another’s throats. It’s where Bill Clinton went in 1996 to put the ghost of the ’60s to rest and build a bridge to the 21st century. And it’s where, next week, the party of Bryan, Roosevelt and Clinton will become the party of Kamala Harris."

THE NOT BURIED LEDE.

The doofus cites, in his opening graf, a post-DNC Chicago record of 4-2-2-0. 1896, 1932, 1968, 1996.

BWAHAHAHAHAAAAA.

[FenwickBabbitt]

Man of God and friend of the workers, William Jennings Bryan, would be doing flips in his grave being discussed in the same breath as Kamala Harris.